The Science of Sight: An Eye-Opening Presentation on the Neuroscience of Vision

The Science of Sight: An Eye-Opening Presentation on the Neuroscience of Vision: Front Row Lecture with Hollis Cline, PhD, and Kirill Martemyanov, PhD
Our sense of sight is our window into the world. Advances in neuroscience are rapidly unlocking the secrets of vision and paving the way to new therapies for blindness and other vision disorders. In their Front Row lecture, Hollis Cline, PhD, and Kirill Martemyanov, PhD, co-chairs of the Department of Neuroscience at Scripps Research, will present their cutting-edge vision research. Among other topics, they will discuss recent findings on how molecules in the retina turn light into information, how visual sensations shape brain development and how deciphering the way our visual system works could lead to new avenues to detect, prevent and correct vision impairments.
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[@conniemoyer4812]

when you discuss light stimulating the brain, what type of light? Sunlight, indoor etc? what spectrum is most effective?

[@nycpaull]

In both the study of imaging in neurology and observation in physics the discussion of the lens needed to produce an image is taken for granted. It seems to be assumed that everyone's lens delivers a standard image with no variables to be considered in the study of vision. Do lenses have enough variables to influence vision studies?

[@JazTrance]

I was unable to find a link to see your program live unfortunately. Here is my question. I have hypertropia, exotropia, and superior oblique myokymia in my right eye (diagnosed 24 years ago), and I have extreme photophobia. I am also nearsighted and farsighted. Getting eyeglasses every year or two years is a nightmare because my eyes won't stop moving. What research have you done, if any, to help people like me?

[@zatakification]

The research presented here may (or may not) be relevant to the conditions you list. But it would only be a very small part of the puzzle. These topics in are so big and complex that individual research projects generally only address a small, very specific and perhaps even seemingly irrelevant target question. Eventually when enough small questions have been answered, larger and more directly clinical questions might come into focus. But we have to address these many small questions first, and we don't know which ones are the most important till we've answered them all.

[@xium_d]

What is the vision of learning and discovering in science?